iRobot Roomba Pet Series 532 Vacuum Cleaning Robot Review
March 30th, 2010
iRobot Roomba Pet Series 532 Vacuum Cleaning Robot Review from Cornstalks. Robots really do work, I received my Robot on December 15,2008, an early Christmas Present. Rather than wrapping it, I gave it to the Missus so we could use it so the house would be nice and clean for Christmas day entertaining.
It cleaned beautifully, the carpets looked great! This thing would fill up with crud even after running the old vacuum. How wonderful, one less chore to do.
Until Christmas Day! So much for showing off the new gizmo! The brushes stopped turning that morning, and repeatedly gave a “clean Brushes” error message. After many attempts, and hours on the IRobot tech site, we established that the rollers indeed were not turning.
After the Holiday rush, I found time to do a little more research. After consulting several robot discussion forums, it appears the cleaning head modules have a high failure rate. Apparently IRobot has made a new design of the module about 2 months ago. After getting frustrated with email support, I called IRobot and they say they will ship me a new module within 10 days.
Okay, considering the above mentioned ordeal, 2 stars is being very generous, but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. However, IRobot and Amazon should not ship items known to be defective.
So, I’ll wait 10 days for the new brush module. I should have returned the whole unit to Amazon, but figured I would get the same faulty design.
I’ll update this review Once I receive the new part and let you know if it fixes the problem, and hopefully give it the 5 star review I want to give!
UPDATE – I got the new module after about 10 days! It was fairly easy to install if you are handy at all, just a few screws and your done. The new module came ready to install, with a new brush style and new rubber beater thingy. I now love my robot! We have an australian shepherd who sheds constantly, and now a one year old boy who is all over the place. I can now play in the floor with him and he/I’m not covered in white dog hair! It’s amazing that this little robot cleans so much better than my regular vacuum. Maybe it’s a time thing. I mean, I would never vacuum a room for an hour, which is about the run time on a charge for this thing. We start it when we leave for work, and most days it’s sitting right on it’s charger like a good little robot should. Occassionally it gets stuck somewhere, or gets full and shuts down before making it back home to the dock, but most times it does exactly what it claims to do. Longevity is still a concern, but I no doubt will buy another if/when this one dies. Hopefully it’ll last, I’m trying to be preemptive, by opening it up and blowing it out with some canned air, keeping the brushes and filters clean, just ordered some filters, they seem to really clog at our house.
But so far, IRobot rocks! I’ll never vacuum again! (Now, where’s the IMower?!)
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